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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Mayhew term the young men between 12 and 20 years old who had no job and loitered in the streets?
(a) Unlucky stiffs.
(b) Lazy varmits.
(c) Rats.
(d) Budding criminals.

2. What does Mayhew say separates animals from plants?
(a) The necessity of finding food.
(b) The force of breath.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Mobility.

3. What would the street clown prefer to do than being a clown?
(a) A groom or police officer.
(b) A dock worker.
(c) A teacher.
(d) A musician.

4. In whom does Mayhew say this moral defect is present?
(a) Vagrants, vagabonds and criminals.
(b) He does not specify.
(c) Mentally slow individuals.
(d) Those not raised in a good home.

5. What did Hemyng define as prostitution?
(a) Only if a man pays for sex.
(b) Only when two people who do not know each other have sex.
(c) Only if a woman accepting money for sex.
(d) A woman having sex with anyone except her husband.

6. Who does Mayhew say are well paid compared to others profiled in the book?
(a) Cab Drivers.
(b) Scalawaggers.
(c) Puppeteers.
(d) Drivers of horse-drawn omnibuses.

7. How did most street folk learn their trade?
(a) As apprentices.
(b) Mostly self taught.
(c) From their parents.
(d) At special art schools.

8. Where was the convicted thief who was interviewed born?
(a) A gypsy camp.
(b) Paris.
(c) Sussex.
(d) Belgium.

9. How were street folk different from patterers?
(a) Patterers used entertainment to sell a product and street folk entertain for tips.
(b) Street folk would try to sell wares along with their entertaining.
(c) Patterers never sold wares.
(d) They were exactly the same; just a different term.

10. To what does Hemyng say the theater, fireworks, low lodging houses, drinking, smoking, the music hall and blasphemy contribute?
(a) Criminal behavior.
(b) An increase in prostitution.
(c) Police ineptness.
(d) General lassitude.

11. What were 381 missionaries paid for in 1861?
(a) Distributing 30 million Bibles.
(b) Distributing literature about birth control.
(c) Converted 1.8 million to Christianity.
(d) 1.8 million home visits.

12. Whose son was the fire eater?
(a) The district police chief.
(b) The tax collector for that district.
(c) The barber.
(d) The constable.

13. What was one thing the mission about which Hemyng writes intended to do?
(a) Reduce abandoned children.
(b) Increase the saving of prostitutes to the Lord.
(c) Reduce blasphemy.
(d) Increase marriage.

14. What did the casual ward provide?
(a) A place to stay for a maximum of six months.
(b) Job search assistance.
(c) Guidance.
(d) Food and shelter for 24 hours only.

15. To what does Nemyng attribute the spread of vice in Europe?
(a) The advent of new social mores among the young.
(b) The establishment of so many splinter groups from the Catholic church.
(c) The French Revolution.
(d) He has no idea what is the cause.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many prostitutes did the police estimate work in London?

2. What were the street folk families like?

3. What did the father of the magician that Mayhew interviewed do for a living?

4. How many prostitutes did Bishop Ryan estimate worked in London?

5. What is another thing the London City Mission did?

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